LAS VEGAS — One team beat No. 3 Arizona in its final regular season game. The other lost by 18 to a win-starved Washington State team. On Thursday, the two were indistinguishable. The truth of Oregon being eliminated made UCLA’s Saturday blunder in Pullman, Wash. feel, in hindsight, stranger than fiction. Sophomore guard Jordan Adams […]
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Jordan Adams proves vital to UCLA men’s basketball
Minutes after UCLA snapped a two-game losing streak over Oregon State on March 2, sophomore guard Jordan Adams spoke. Reporters on deadline asked Adams and sophomore guard/forward Kyle Anderson, UCLA’s leading scorers in the game and season, two minutes’ worth of questions, and after a moment of silence, the two were free to go. But […]
UCLA’s Kyle Anderson, Jordan Adams named to All-Pac-12 first team
Sophomore guard/forward Kyle Anderson and sophomore guard Jordan Adams have been named to the All-Pac-12 first team, the conference announced Monday.
UCLA disappoints on the road again in 73-55 loss to WSU
Someone forgot to tell the UCLA men’s basketball team that, unlike baseball, the game isn’t over after nine. In what surprisingly crumbled to a 73-55 loss, UCLA began to coast just three minutes into the game.
UCLA men’s basketball faces second game in Washington
UCLA will depend on freshman Zach LaVine’s recent resurgence in the paint against Washington State, its second game in LaVine’s home state this weekend.
Bruins tap into talent, defeat Huskies 91-82
SEATTLE — UCLA led by nine with just over seven minutes to play, and Jordan Adams was all smiles. The sophomore guard did so in the most unexpected of places: While getting cramps worked out of his calves and tightness wringed out of his hamstrings and quadriceps by a team trainer. Adams took a few […]
UCLA basketball heads to Washington looking to solidify spot in Pac-12
Loud and purple. Those are the two adjectives sophomore guard Jordan Adams used to describe Washington’s Alaska Airlines Arena, the building where UCLA men’s basketball will kick off a two-game road trip on Thursday to close out the regular season. It’s also a venue where the Bruins will need to win for the second straight […]